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thx for the insight @bennysaurus. That's what I dislike about rumours, especially with so little info and in areas I lack understanding.

[bennysaurus]

No trouble and agreed - rumours flying around like that don't help the problem. If there was that level of security breech, outsiders would probably do more than lock everybody out anyway.

Finding further information about it: looks like a core switch died with the backup not kicking in. 12 hours to work around is a but much though.